This is a story of someone not too familiar with Linux and Gentoo and had, at one point, ALSA and SBLive working hand in hand. Currently, there is no SBLive love with ALSA and the only way to get sound is via kernel sound. I would really like to get ALSA back, it sounded much, much better.

In the kernel, I have left sound as Module, vs compiling it. I also have let the kernel compile a module for the emu10k1 even. As per the other posts for ALSA, this is how someone explained I should be doing it.

from what I've read here on the forums, the kernel emu10k1 code *IS* the Creative Opensource Driver... Sounds like total crap on my system. horrible.

vash... the alsa driver won't work if you have kernel emu10k1 running. if its a module make sure its not loaded.

Right now, I know for a fact that sound support is a module and definitely not loaded by default.

As far as the kernel sound goes, it works, but the volume is very, very low. How can I increase the volume of the kernel driver? This sound support reall sucks. I would really like to get alsa-driver re-emerge'd, but it simply will not recompile.

metallhead, right, but as far as you can read from the kernel changelogs, only alan's (ac) kerneltree actually features an uptodate version of it. the standard one sucks indeed ..._________________A mathematician is a machine for turning coffee into theorems. ~ Alfred Renyi (*1921 - †1970)